caw  <cawright.99@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| > The next time you create /that class/
| > (NOT AN INSTANCE OF THAT CLASS!!!!), ie, when you exit your lisp and
| > re-enter and the Lisp runtime has to create anew /the class/, then you
| > will see the new initform take effect.
| 
| That's what I found surprising... that the class is not created anew
| when the new class definition is compiled and loaded.
+---------------

Why is that "surprising"? The identity of a instance of a
class does not change when the class definition changes, right?
[Slots may be added or deleted or updated, but *identity*
doesn't change.]  Well, [by default] any class is itself
an instance of the class STANDARD-CLASS, so why would you
expect the identity of such an instance to change, either?


-Rob

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